Once upon a time, yes.
Where and how?
(edit: it is now 23!)
Won't make me rich.
But it makes me happy that I am part of rebuilding an old style web.
If you write about interesting stuff, post your website below and I might add a link and I don't care about nofollow and all that SEO stuff. Maybe 5 of my visitors visit you.
You won't get rich but you will be part of something.
They still haven't implemented support for seeing comments on the blog post itself, but once they have that it seems to be exactly what you are looking for.
r/sffpc has https://smallformfactor.net/forum/
r/JDM_WAAAAT has serverbuilds.net
Not to mention that some subs have associated / affiliated Discord servers- where you can directly chat with those at the forefront of the community directly.